Don't groan just yet.  Some of you might be expecting me to say one of the many defenses of the Obama administration.  Give him some time, He has to clean up the mess that Bush left ,  He has a lot on his plate, We can't just leave Iraq and Afghanistan.. blah blah blah....

 But no, I don't think and didn't think any of these things. Not because I am a skeptic or because I  think Obama is just another politician.  But because from the very beginning The World Can't Wait soberly confronted reality when many other organizations either couldn't or wouldn't.

From World Can't Wait's call  in 2005

" There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people"

Fast forward 5 years later, enter the teabag movement and the lack of opposition from the those that oppose the endless wars of aggression, torture and war crimes.  World Can't Wait originally brought the message that the only way to stop the  crimes of our government  was through an independent mass movement of resistance that broke out of the framework of politics as usual and appealing to the powers that be. We are taking on all the crimes of our government because we understood from the beginning  that these crimes were much to0 deep and fundamental to the  empire to  fight one at a time.

 We were in the streets of DC at Obama's Inaguration to reach the tens of thousands of people who hated what was being done under Bush, dreamed of a better world and to tell them the truth about what Obama was actually going to do. 

After the elections, we have been poised for the disappointment that people would feel once Obama sent his surge into Afghanistan, left Guantanamo open and continued the permanant occupation of Iraq and never gave up on our mission and the  possiblity to stop these crimes through a mass independent movement of resistance. We need to reach many more people with the message, " Time to shake off paralysis and complicity and act in a way that is so visible and powerful that it can be seen all over the world."

World Can't Wait is an organization that is willing to and can lead people to do this. We need to reach the millions of people that are out there who didn't get our message before the election, to those who weren't ready to hear and to those who are now waking up. We need to fight to bring forward a competiting moral authority that is not made up of racists and religious teabaggers.   This is something that Obama never claimed to do and something that the Democratic party will never do. This is something that World Can't Wait IS pledging to do.

I am currently unemployed but I am sustaining World Can't Wait at $25 a month to make sure that World Can't Wait can grow as a force in this country and around the world. It is true that times are tough for lots of us but they are bound to get tougher for people everywhere if there is no resistance to the killing of abortion doctors, expansion of wars for empire, the legalization of torture, the planet on the brink of diasaster and the danger of the growing facist right wing movement.

We do not have to live this way, the world does not have to be this way but we must sacrifice and take responsiblity for the kind of world that we want to live in now!

World Can't Wait needs 240 supporters to donate monthly to support our whole national operation.

 Become a Sustainer today! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1170/t/3716/content.jsp?content_KEY=6860